My dearest Jason,
I'm having such a
nice time with Lucy. She owns a wonderful Victorian mansion
all surrounded by verandahs and green lawns and tropical
vegetation it's all very exotic and rather lovely. The Colonel such
a silly spelling but you know how very odd English is bought
the house for a song decades ago and their children were brought up
there and seem to be quite Malayan as they speak the language
fluently and her son Hugh has a Malayan wife so beautiful though I
think they call it Malaysia now so pretentious all this name changing
just so some miserable politician can have their name on some
monument or road though why there is Asia in Malaysia I don't know
since everybody knows Malaysia is in Asia. The house is quite
wonderful really just like out of some BBC period drama from
my grandfather's times and the verandahs are essential because
of the heat but Lucy has installed air conditioning we have tous
conforts! This flying business is greatly overdone I was quite
washed out by the time I got here even though the seat was
marvellously comfortable I suppose I'm getting old which is
altogether tiresome but I think it wise to break one's journey
since Australia is so far away so I will stay with Lucy on the
way back. I didn't have any champagne on the flight though it looked
quite delicious because I haven't for years when I travel since that
one time in Washington. She and I and her sons played croquet on
the lawn for a while which quite took me back but it is such an old
fashioned game don't you think. I decided to stay one extra day here
so I will be arriving on Tuesday morning your time I'm sorry to throw
out all your arrangements like this but I got so tired and I have
what they call jetlag which happens because you leave your soul
behind you when you fly because the aeroplane just zips along like
anything I wonder what Canon Green would say.
love
gran
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